Walter Slezak Overview:

Character actor, Walter Slezak, was born on May 3, 1902 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. Slezak died at the age of 81 on Apr 21, 1983 in Flower Hill, NY .

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Tubby, mustachioed Walter Slezak was an Austrian actor just as likely to play affable or menacing characters. A welcome part of any film, he was probably most memorable as the German on Hitchcock's Lifeboat. He had two bursts of intense film activity, in Germany from 1924 to 1928 and in Hollywood from 1942 to 1954, having been in America since the early 1930s. Otherwise he appeared mostly on stage. He was also a writer and humorist. He retired in 1972, but in 1983 committed suicide by shooting himself.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

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Walter Slezak Quotes:

Willy: [to the delirious Gus] There's Rosie! She's waiting for you!
[Willy pushes Gus overboard]


Robert L. Talbot: [looking at his villa] Isn't that a new color?
Maurice Clavell: I beg your pardon?
Robert L. Talbot: I said, isn't that a new color?
Maurice Clavell: [chuckles] Houses are like women; The older they get, the more paint they need.


Don Juan Alvarado: I am sure your advice is sound; however, I will ignore it.


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